Abstract
Experiments using the Velten Mood Induction Procedure (VMIP) have provided support for cognitively based theories of depression, which assign a major role to self-devaluative cognition in initiating and maintaining a depressed state. Frost, Graf, and Becker (1979), however, claim that self-devaluative components of the VMIP do not lower mood or otherwise mimic depression, but that the elements of the VMIP that suggest depression-related somatic states do. The present study found that both components of the VMIP have a powerful impact on self-reported mood. In addition, the self-devaluative statements led subjects to make significantly more negativistic interpretations of everyday problem situations on the Hammen-Krantz (HK) scale than the neutral or somatic statements did. These findings are interpreted as indicating the importance of self-devaluation in analogue simulations of depression. In addition, they also suggest that negative mood is not a unitary phenomenon; different types of negative mood—that ...
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